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An analysis of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality database indicates that the top cause of non-natural death for children and teenagers in recent years was motor vehicles, not guns.

Transportation accidents — which include motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian fatalities and people killed in mass transportation accidents — killed 85,742 people age

19 or younger between 1999 and 2010.

Murders and other homicides, suicides, accidental shootings, and youths killed by police accounted for 35,758 deaths in the same age range during that period.

The mortality database is not clear about the causes of the transportation accidents.

In 2011, about a third of the traffic fatalities that occurred in Nevada were the result of impaired driving, according to John Johansen, the impaired driving program manager for the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety.

A federal study said violent deaths for teenagers are generally increasing, while traffic fatalities are declining.

That U.S. Health and Human Services report is called “Youth Mortality in the United States, 1935-2007: Large and Persistent Disparities in Injury and Violent Deaths.”

Only the District of Columbia had more people age 19 and younger who died from gun deaths than from transportation accidents from 1999, the year the CDC adopted new death categories, to 2010, the latest year for which data is available.